green box

English

Noun

green box (plural green boxes)

1. (now historical) An upper box in a theatre. [from 18th c.]
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXCIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC:

     And we shall sit in the gallery green-box.

   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 18:

     I told her the strength of my purse, and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful spring of thirteen, stuck up in a green box with a blazing whore.

2. A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade. [from 20th c.]
3. A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone.

Coordinate terms

(colored boxes, especially electronic ones):

• beige box
• black box
• blue box
• brown box
• gray box
• green box
• orange box
• purple box
• red box
• silver box
• white box
• yellow box